Ninth Inning Homers Help Baseball Top Lasell, 11-6

WALTHAM, Mass. – Suffolk baseball barreled a pair of bombs in the ninth to take down Lasell, 11-6, Wednesday night at Stein Diamond.  

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 11 | Lasell 6
RECORDS: Suffolk (15-14) | Lasell (15-15)  

HOW IT HAPPENED 
Garret Roberts' led off the outing with a solo shot to center field to foreshadow an offensive heavy night for the Rams. After Roberts sent a ball out of the park, Luke Harder brought another Suffolk student-athlete in in the first inning with a single up the middle to give the visitors a two-run lead. 

The blue-and-gold doubled the distance an inning later thanks to an RBI single from Jonny Gilbride and a sac fly by Harry Painter.  

Lasell got on the board in the third to trim Suffolk's edge to three, 4-1. That margin stood through the sixth. The score, however, changed to 5-2 as the teams traded runs. 

In the seventh, base hits paid off for the Rams. After a Lasers error, Cormier plated Harder and two batters later the first baseman came in on Ben Isaak's single up the middle.  

The Lasers continued to chip away at the deficit as they scored two in the bottom of the seventh and one in the eighth to make it a one run game, 7-6. 

Suffolk added insurance in home run fashion in the top of the ninth. First, Lake went yard and Roberts followed suit with his second dinger of the night. Roberts brought in Isaak, who singled through the left side, with him to bump the advantage to 10-6. Painter's second sac fly of the outing extended matters even further.  

With a four-run lead, Steven Rossi took over for EJ Birch. The Rams reliever may have allowed a base runner on a walk, but he managed to hold his composure to secure the win for Suffolk. 

PITCHERS PICTURE

• George Breslin earned the win. His stat line featured five runs, three earned, on six hits and two walks with six strikeouts through 6.1 innings. 
• Birch recorded a one-run, two-hit, one-walk, one-punchout performance through 1.2 innings. 
• Rossi tossed 1.0 inning of scoreless, hitless relief with one walk allowed and one K.
• Lasell used five different arms in the outing. 
• Ryan Spies suffered the setback after letting up two runs on three hits and two walks with one strikeout in the first inning. 
• Pierce Clare (1 R, 0 ER, 3 H) saw the most action, 3.0 innings, while Jack Snyder (2 R, 4 H) and Joey Rego (4 R, 3 H, 1 BB, 2 K) each threw a pair of frames. 
• Tim Coakley (1.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 1 ER) came out of the pen for the Lasers as well.  

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Roberts registered three hits, including one double and one dinger, for three RBI, three runs scored and one stolen base. 
• Lake logged three hits including a jack. He brought in one run and scored one himself. 
• Harder had a 3-for-5 day at the dish with one RBI and one run scored. 
• Gilbride added two hits, two runs, one RBI and one stolen base. 
• Painter recorded two hits, two RBI on a pair of sac flies and scored one run. 
• Isaak added a 2-for-3 effort at the plate with two runs scored and one RBI. 
• Cormier chipped in one hit, one RBI and one run scored.   

NOTEWORTHY

• Suffolk moved to 33-3 all-time against Lasell. 
• The Rams are 18-3 versus the Lasers under Anthony Del Prete.
• Suffolk had two-plus homers in a single game for the 10th time this season. 
• Lake notched his first collegiate homer. 
• Lake set a career-high in hits (3).
• Isaak tied a personal-best in runs scored with two. 
• Harder matched a career-best three hits. 
• Painter pushed his hit streak to six games. 
• Painter tallied his first sac flies as a Ram and finished the game with two. 
• Roberts hit a career-high two homers. He is the second Ram this season to hit multiple homers in a single game this year as Joe Ward knocked a pair at Endicott April 1. 
• Roberts produced a career-high three RBI.  

POST-GAME PIC
  

WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk concludes its midweek action tomorrow, Thursday, April 21 at UMass Dartmouth at 3:30 p.m.